We saw Dublin Castle today. The rooms were all very spectacular, featuring rococo plaster ceilings, antique chairs, browned lacquer portraits, and gilded pillars.
We saw a room where heads of state slept. Someone asked our guide to name some notable visitors. "Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan slept here - not together, of course. And Bill and Hillary Clinton slept here - together surprisingly."
Mom and I both enjoyed the Castles collection of Louis the fourteenth chairs upholstered with tapestry illustrating Aesop's fables.
On the way out, we were hustled aside as the Irish President was approaching. She got out of her car and we glimpsed her at close range for a second before she glided into the fortress.
On the way back to the coach, several Amercians expressed surprise at the low level of security.
A Finish man said, "If you could not approach her as an ordinary person, she could never get elected in Europe."
The man behind him on the coach said, "That's the problem in America - they're ordinary people until they get elected."
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